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- Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician…
- You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
- That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he…
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in…
- Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the…
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,…
- No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
- Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided…
- Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT…
- Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
- William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free…
- If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!
- There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's…
- You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.…
- Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland,…
- I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him…
- Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
- They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that,…
- And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to…
- ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST,…
- Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the…
- What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
- Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.…
- And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
- This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle